Improvement in cigar-bunching machines



H. MEYER. Cigar-Bunching Machines.

Patented Oct. 13,1874

No-.l55,805.

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UNITED STATES BERNHARD H. MEYER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PATENT OFFICE.

IMPRCVEMENT lN ClGAR-BUNCHING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent'No. 155,805, dated October 13, 1874; application filed May 29, 1874.

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T 0 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, BERNHARD H. MEYER, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful and Improved Machine for Bunching Tobacco for Making Cigars; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The nature or essence of my invention.

consists in an apparatus, or a box and plunger, the box being provided with a movable or yielding bottom, so that when a proper quantity of tobacco is put in to form the filling of a cigar, the plunger may be put in, to press it together, and push it through the box onto a binder, wrapper, or the apron of a machine which is to roll it up.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are an elevation and plan of the plunger. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the box; and Figs. 4 and 5 top and bottom views of the same. Fig. 6 is the right-hand end of the box, and Fig. 7 a section. Fig. 8 is a section of the box and plunger.

The object of this invention is to bunch the tobacco for making cigars, and feed it to such machines as are patented to John T. Hennemon, August 13', 1872, No. 130,496 also, July 1, 1873, No. 140,501; and Emil Deutsch, March 10, 1874, No. 148,286; and such other machines as roll the bunch and ap ply the wrapper or binder in the bite or fold of an apron worked by a roller.

In the abovementioned drawings, A is the front of the box, and B the rear, connected by the ends 0 G. The rear side B of the box is made thick enough to fill about one-half the box inside, and has a rabbet, D, on the inside of its lower edge for the movable bottom E to swing into when the bottom is opened.

The movable bottom E is hinged to the corner of the rabbet, in the rear side B of thebox, and is pressed against the front side A by the spring G fastened to the end 0.

The plunger H is made of wood, in the form shown in Figsl and 2, just large enough to pass freely through theopening in the box, and push out the tobacco which has been placed therein.

The edges of the plunger are curved, as shown in the drawing, to compress the ends of the bunch of tobacco in the box smaller than in the middle, to give form to the cigar.

To use the above-described box in bunching tobacco for cigar-fillings, it may be placed on a table, or on a scale, it it is desirable to weigh the fillings for each cigar, and the pieces of tobacco laid on with the left hand, and pressed in with the right hand, and held, if they are long enough to project over the end of the box, while the left hand tears off what projects beyond the end of the box, and lays it on the top. WVhen the proper quantity or weight of tobacco has been placed in the box, and while the box remains on the table, the operator puts in the plunger, and presses the tobacco together, the table supportingthe bottom of the box while he presses the ends ofthe bunch ofthe tobacco smaller than the middle. He then takes up the box and tobacco and puts it over the fold or bite of the apron of a rolling-machine which has a wrapper or binder laid on it, and pushes the bunch out of the box into the wrapper or binder and apron, still compressing the ends smaller than the middle, and raises the box up on the plum ger, and holds the plunger down on the tobacco until the roller under the apron is brought against it, and the apron and binder tighten on the bunch of tobacco, when the plunger is pulled out, and the roller passed over the table, winding the binder or W111i)- per on the bunch.

I claim- The combination of the box A B, yielding bottom E, spring G,and plunger H, the whole constructed to operate substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

EEENHARD H. MEYER.

Witnesses J. DENNIS,J1., THOMAS C. GoNNoLLY. 

